NY Times just published an article on why monkeys and humans eat junk food.
“These results may not surprise any stressed-out wage slave
who has polished off a quart of Häagen-Dazs at midnight while contemplating the
day’s humiliations. But the experiment intrigues scientists studying human
junk-food binges, which are hard to understand because there are so many
confounding factors.”
“The stress seemed to affect snacking in different ways for
each sex. The women given solvable puzzles ate more grapes than M&Ms, while
the women under stress preferred M&Ms. The men ate more of the high-fat
snacks when they were not under stress, apparently because the ones who
got the easy anagrams had more time to relax and have a treat.”
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